Macey
Feminine · “from Massy”
Macey is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 11,536 girls against 51 boys since 1880.
Macey is a Norman place name — Massy in France — and it is also a form of Matthew, which is why the same surname can mean two entirely different things.
How old is the name Macey?
Macey first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Macey alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 11,500 people named Macey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Macey most popular?
Macey peaked in 2001, reaching #494 nationally. Today it ranks #1611, 1,117 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Massy to Macey
The story of Macey
De Maci families came to England with the Normans and gave their name to villages in Cheshire and Devon. The surname entered American given-name use in the twentieth century, largely for girls, alongside Macy and Maci. Macey appears in the American registers rising from the 1990s and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
from Massy; gift of God
Two routes. From the Norman place names Macey and Massy, built on a Gallo-Roman personal name. Or as a matronymic or diminutive of Matthew, from the Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of God'. Both are documented for the surname Macey and Massey, and neither is settled.
How the name formed
- Massy
- de Maci
- Macey
Related forms: Macy · Maci · Massy
Pronouncing Macey
MAY-see
Two syllables, stress on the first. Macey, Macy and Maci are said identically.
Nicknames for Macey
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1900
- Most girls named
- 2005536 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #494reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- −18.4%129 in 2025, from 158
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Macey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Macy in English — spelling variant
- Maci in English — spelling variant
- Massy in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Maceys among us
people named Macey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,459 born in 2025 was named Macey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Macey
- #1611
- Macey on the 2025 chart
- #818
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Macey went to 129 girls in 2025, but Mazey is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 142, which makes it the 818th most-given girls’ name of the year — 793 places above the chart.
- Macey129
- Mazey13
About 1 girl in 11,319 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,459 for Macey itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marisela test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Macey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marisela climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marisela's path sketches the road Macey is walking now.
Macey sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Macey is headed
Macey should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Macey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Macey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two documented traditions stand behind it, one Norman and one biblical.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The Matthew route gives it a transparent and attractive meaning.
- The origin is genuinely split between a place and a personal name.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in common use.
- A large American department store carries the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maceys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,500 people named Macey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Macey?
- Macey is the most-used spelling in US records — 129 of the 142 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mazey.
- How popular is the name Macey in 2025?
- Macey ranks #1611 among US girl names in 2025, with 129 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Macey?
- About 1 in every 12,459 US girls born in 2025 was named Macey — 129 in all.
- Will my child share the name Macey with classmates?
- Macey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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